Rare are the bands to make something so good after years and years of
activity, even more after decades, as it’s the case for Ride, known for
having been one of the main bands of the “Shoegazing” movement in
England during the 90’s with, in particular, My Bloody Valentine : heavy
guitars but a pop whole, playing while watching the shoes. I’ll add that this song is one of the come back record of the band, after 20 years without anything.

This song is totally hypnotic, powerful, masterfully composed, with
incredible dynamics. Compared to the 90’s period of the band, the guitar
wall is not permanent and allows the juvenile voice of the singer to
express itself fully.

In a live version which I’ll show another
time, you’ll see how such a voice can come out of the damaged face of
Mark Gardener, once so handsome with his androgynous features ‘n long
hair.

Fantastic sound of drums, perfect double bass groove, lovely dobro
and harmonica addition, superb flow, this was the entrance of this
record of G Love and his band in 1 994.

If the record was
frankly boring after several songs, as almost all hip-hop records, this
tune remains a hit and a real phenomenon in the attempt of hip-hop
transformation, mixed with blues, at the same time than another band of
the kind, Soul Coughing, each time a white band.

For the ones who wouldn’t know this magnificent Icelandic
band, they have been making plenty of instrumental soft songs, to which
they sometimes add aerial voices. The Icelandic language hasn’t been a
barrier to their important success, which is an extremely rare fact.

Can you imagine that there’s a French indie rock-punk band with such a
great quality, and that it’s almost unknown ? Two members of the band
come from the USA but live in France. Would have they made the same band
in the USA, they would have been worldwide famous as Blink 182 and
several others.

France has never been a punk rock country, except when it comes from other countries, mainly the USA.

Hypnotic groovy tune by the great English band Red Snapper led by the
bass and double bass player Ali Friend in the 90’s, then in the
following decades.

On their first record they were known to have invited the singer Beth Orton for a lovely song, In Deep.

The power of the double bass is here superb, wonderfully united to the
drumming, energetic and light. The way the drums start the double bass’
main line is absolutely remarkable (0.29).

Apart from that, tenor
saxophone for the verses or first part, plane-like aerial slide guitar
along the song after the first portion. The sax, doubled, comes back at
the end and delicately closes the tune along a long double note.

Superb, and very underrated song from the legendary record Last
Splash which was the second of the band. For the ones who wouldn’t know,
The Breeders is a satellite of the best band ever, Pixies from Boston
USA.

They started during the existence of Pixies with the first
record Pod, then the Brilliant leader Kim Deal developed plenty of
projects outside the main matrix, among which The Breeders, before
coming back to the main home more than 10 years ago.